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1 DAVID A. BAUM Department of Botany DAVID A. BAUM Department of Botany Tel: (608)265-5385 University of Wisconsin Fax: (608)262-7509 430 Lincoln Drive Email: [email protected] Madison, WI 53706 Website: www.botany.wisc.edu/baum EDUCATION 1982-1985 St. Catherine's College, University of Oxford, B.A. (Hons.), Botany. 1986-1991 Washington University in St. Louis, Ph.D. in Evolutionary and Population Biology APPOINTMENTS 1991-1993 Postdoctoral research fellow (K. Sytsma), Department of Botany, UW-Madison 1993-1994 Postdoctoral research trainee (A. Bleecker), Department of Botany, UW-Madison 1994-1998 Assistant Professor, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University 1998-2001 Associate Professor, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University (awarded tenure, May 2000) 2001-2004 Associate Professor, Department of Botany UW-Madison 2004- Professor, Department of Botany, UW-Madison 2014- Discovery Fellow, Wisconsin Institute for Discover, UW-Madison ADMINISTRATIVE ROLES 2008-2012 Chair, Department of Botany, UW-Madison 2010-2013 Director, J. F. Crow Institute for the Study of Evolution, UW-Madison 2012-2014 Interim Associate Director for Students, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery 2015-2017 Chair, Department of Botany, UW-Madison RESEARCH INTERESTS Plant evolution and systematics. The molecular basis of morphological evolution. Pollination biology and floral evolution. Phylogenetic theory. Origin of eukaryotes. Origin of life. MAJOR AWARDS AND HONORS 2019 UW-Madison Teaching Academy, Distinguished Fellow (The ‘Academy Award’) 2016 Kellett Mid-Career Award, UW-Madison 2015 Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award, UW-Madison 2010 UW-Madison Teaching Academy, Fellow 2009-2014 Letters and Sciences Hamel Family Faculty Fellowship, UW-Madison 2008 Christiansen Fellowship, St. Catherine’s College, Oxford 1 2007-2008 John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship 2006 Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science 1999-2004 National Science Foundation, Career Award. 1996-1999 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Young Investigator Award in Molecular Evolution CURRENT GRANTS National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Exobiology (80NSSC17K0296). The emergence of evolvable surface-associated interacting molecular ensembles: A chemical ecosystem selection approach. $2,500,500. 7/26/17-7/25/20. PI (coPIs Katarzyna Adamala, Irving Epstein, Janet Iwasa, Christopher Kempes, Niles Lehman, Karyn Rogers, Daniel Segrè). University of Wisconsin Graduate School Fall Competition Grant. Parallel origins of sex determination and homeotic sexual dimorphism in Thalictrum. $52,867. 7/1/19- 6/30/21. PI. PRIOR GRANTS (since 2004) National Science Foundation, Systematics Program (DEB-1354793). Collaborative Research: Multilocus phylogenetics and species delimitation using sequence-capture and next- gen sequencing and its application in Adansonia (Malvaceae). $670,384. 6/1/2014 - 5/31/2018. PI (co-PIs = Cecile Ané, Corrinne Grover, Jonathan Wendel) National Science Foundation, Chemistry of Life Processes Program (CHE-1624562). Collaborative Research: EAGER: A microfluidic platform for the discovery of new, life-liKe chemical systems. $300,000. 8/1/2016 -7/31/2018. PI (co-PIs = David Eddington, Tehshik Yoon, Judith Burstyn, Kalin Vetsigian). University of Wisconsin Graduate School Interdisciplinary Research Grant. Selecting for life- liKe chemistry on mineral surfaces. $75,000. 7/1/14-6/30/16. PI (co-PIs = Samuel Gellman, Tehshik Yoon, Judith Burstyn, Kalin Vetsigian). National Science Foundation, Systematics Program (DEB-0949121). Reconciling gene trees: deciphering the source and extent of genealogical discordance. $505,379. 7/1/10-6/30/13. Co-PI (PI=Cecile Ané). National Science Foundation, Systematics Program (DEB-0949121). Reconciling gene trees: deciphering the source and extent of genealogical discordance. $505,379. 7/1/10-6/30/13. Co-PI (PI=Cecile Ané) National Science Foundation, Developmental Mechanisms Program (IOS-1021930). The molecular mechanisms by which genes alter development when moved between closely related species. $135,460. 9/1/10-12/30/11. PI National Science Foundation, Planetary Biotic Inventory Program. Systematics and Evolution of Euphorbia. $152,199. 9/1/06-8/30/10. Subcontract PI (overall PI: Paul Berry, University of Michigan). National Science Foundation, Developmental Mechanisms Program (IOB-0641428). The genetic basis of the evolution of rosette flowering in Leavenworthia. $375,000. 7/1/07-6/30/10. PI 2 National Science Foundation, REU program (DBI-0552806). Integrated Biological Sciences Summer Research Program for Undergraduates. $440,321. 05/01/06 - 04/30/11. co-PI (PI=Janet Branchaw) National Science Foundation, Systematic Biology program (DEB-0608428). Dissertation Research: Systematics and Biogeography of the Pedilanthus clade (Euphorbia- Euphorbiaceae). $12,000. 7/1/06-6/30/08. PI (co-PI=Ivalú Cacho). National Science Foundation, Systematic Biology program (DEB-0608444). Dissertation Research: Systematics and evolution of the Malagasy endemic genus Megistostegium (Malvaceae). $11,998. 7/1/06-8/30/08. PI (co-PI=Margaret Koopman). National Science Foundation, Systematic Biology Program (DEB-0416096). Phylogeny of Malvatheca (Malvaceae) and the pace and place of its evolution. $300,000. 9/1/04- 8/30/07. PI. National Science Foundation, Developmental Mechanisms Program (IOB-0234118). Meristem identity genes and the evolution of plant architecture in Brassicaceae. $345,000. 2/15/03- 2/14/06. PI National Institutes of Health, Improving Bayesian Phylogeny (R01: GM068950-01). $1,449,570. 6/1/03-5/31/07. co-PI (PI=Bret Larget). National Science Foundation, Systematic Biology Program (DEB-0309310). Dissertation Research: Pollinator-mediated evolution of Andean Solanaceae. $11,590. 7/1/03-6/30/06. PI (co-PI=Stacey Smith). AUTHORED BOOKS Baum, D. A. and Smith, S.D. 2012. Tree-thinking: An Introduction to Phylogenetic Biology. Roberts & Company, Greenwood Village, CO. EDITED BOOKS Losos, J. Baum, D. A., D. Futuyma, H. Hoekstra, R. Lenski, A. Moore, D. Schluter, and M. Whitlock (eds.). 2013. The Princeton Guide to Evolution. Princeton University Press. JOURNAL ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS (see Google Scholar profile) Peng, Z., Plum, A., Gagrani, P., and Baum, D. A. 2020. An ecological framework for the analysis of prebiotic chemical reaction networks. arXiv preprint. For submission to J. Theoretical Biology. Zizka, A., Carvalho-Sobrinho J. G., Pennington, R. T., Queiroz, L. P., Alcantara, S., Baum, D. A., Bacon, C. D., and Antonelli. A. 2020. Transitions between biomes are common and directional in Bombacoideae (Malvaceae). Journal of Biogeography. 2020; 00: 1– 12 [link] Karimi, N., Grover, C. E., Ané, C., Gallagher, J. P., Wendel, J. P., and Baum, D. A. 2020. Reticulate evolution helps explain apparent homoplasy in floral biology and pollination in baobabs (Adansonia; Bombacoideae; Malvaceae). Systematic Biology 69: 462– 478, https://doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syz073 [link] Vincent, L., Berg, M., Krismer, M., Saghafi, S., Cosby, J., Sankari, T., Vetsigian, K., Cleaves, H. J. III, and Baum, D. A. 2019. Chemical Ecosystem Selection on Mineral Surfaces 3 Reveals long-term dynamics consistent with the spontaneous emergence of mutual catalysis. Life. 9(4), doi:10.3390/life9040080 [link] Baum, D. A. 2019. Plant parts: Processes, structures, or functions? Gardens Bulletin, Singapore, 71 (Suppl. 2): 247-258. [link] Vincent L., Cleaves H. J., and Baum, D. A. 2019. A candidate self-propagating system enriched by chemical ecosystem selection. ALIFE 2019: The 2019 Conference on Artificial Life, Artificial Life, 658-659. [link] Mizuuchi, R., Blokhuis, A., Vincent, L., Nghe, P., Lehman, N., and Baum, D. A. 2019. Mineral surfaces select for longer RNA molecules. Chemical Communications 10.1039/C8CC10319D [link] Conover, J.L., Karimi, N., Stenz, N., Ané, C., Grover, C.E., Skema, C., Tate, J. A., Wolff, K., Logan, S. A., Wendel, J.F., and Baum, D. A. 2018. A Malvaceae mystery: A mallow maelstrom of genome multiplications and maybe misleading methods? Journal of Integrative Plant Biology 61(1):12-31 [link] Baum, D. A. 2018. The origin and early evolution of life in chemical complexity space. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 456: 295-304 [link] Wright, E. and Baum, D. A. 2018. Exclusivity offers a sound yet practical species criterion for bacteria. BMC Genomics 19:724 [link] Dey, G, and Baum, D. A. 2018. Origin of Eukaryotes. Oxford Bibliographies in Evolutionary Biology (Ed. Karin Pfennig). New York: Oxford University Press. DOI: 10.1093/OBO/9780199941728-0108 [link] Vincent L., Vetsigian K., and Baum, D. A. 2018. Chemical ecosystem selection approach for generating evolvable chemical systems in vitro. In: Artificial Life Conference Proceedings 2018 Jul (pp. 649-650). MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. [link] Baum, D. A. 2017. Does the future of systematics really rest on the legacy of one mid-twentieth century German entomologist? Quarterly Review of Biology 94:450-453 [link] Karimi, N., Parks, B. M., Rouse, D., Martin K., Dong, X., Rajangam, P. C., Baum, D. A., and Heitz, J. G. 2017. Building Trees: Introducing evolutionary concepts by exploring Crassulaceae phylogeny and biogeography. CourseSource 04:1-9 [link] Baum, D. A. and Lehman, N. 2017. Life’s late digital revolution and why it matters for the study of the origins of life. Life 7(3), 34: doi: 10.3390/life7030034 [link] Venter, S., Glennon, K. Witkowski, E. Baum, D. A., Cron, G., Tivakudze, R., and Karimi N. 2017. Baobabs (Adansonia digitata L.) are self-incompatible and ‘male’
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